Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-03-12
HOME AND FAMILY.
mOnsignor Capel Delivers am I'm.
teresting Lecture.

teTesthmR Lecture
Monsignor Capel lectured last nigh,
at Armory Hall before an audience,
which, considering the subject and the
eminence of the speaker, should have
been much larger. As it was there
were sufficient present to give evidence
that there are some people in the city
who enjoy intellectual treats of high
order. The subject chosen was "Home,
the School of Good and Great Men, :" az d
Monsignor Capels treatment of 1T was
eloquence itself. Hespoke in substance
as follows: New centers oblige those
who are thoughtful for the good of the
country to see that those things which
are necessary TO the formation of homes
should be carried out. The creator of
ths family is the work of God
aud the creator of the State is
the work Of man. Home is the SHE'LL
that surrounds the whole thought of
family. When God made man he said
it was not good for man TO be alone, and
companion was created as the
other part of man. Man shall
lead and The man shall cleave to
his wife. 1t is the union existing be.
tween man and woman which is the
grand idea of the creation Of home. The
family law is one which is not to be
played with. If it is, the destruction
Of family life is certain. The bond be.
tween man and woman should only be
destroyed by death. 1t is this which
works for the continuation and the pro.
creation of the human race. The
formation Of such union is for
the purpose of bringing forth chill
dren, of educating them and of
teaching them to live moral lives.
The child, as it grows older, has its
ideas formed by its father. Its ideas are
to do as he does, to think as he does and
to follow his example. While the moth.
er's tenderness is there the father is the
guiding star of the growing child. The
Heavenly Father has given the child the
instinct tc look on the one side for sym
pathy and on the other for leader.
The parents are bound to feed that child
both physically and intellectually. This
embodies one Of the grand questions of
the Nineteenth Century. The question,
10 the CuHu tue properly VI inc otate OF
of its parents, or shall it be educated by
the rules of Sparta or of Rome? 1t is
the law of God, fixed as the law of gravi-
tation, that upon the father and mother
rests the right Of forming the child
which has been called into exis.
tence. The same hand that has
used father and mother for the
creation of the child has imposed
upon them the duty of bringing them
up. Have we ever had such family as
these remarks would imply? Yes. 1t is
the Holy family made up of many. the
mother and God, the father and their son.
They were in the light of Christianity,
the model family. The Romans trusted
to the power of family for the formation
of the Government. The granduer of
the British Empire has been in the fact
that they have had fixed homes from
whence the sons have gone into the
world. The time is fast approaching
when much of this will be destroyed, but
SO surely as 1t does, SO surely will the
power OF the British Government be lost.
That which makes men of us, can only
be obtained at home and not from teach.
ers. 1t is manners that make the man,
and manners are formed at home.